bring before

phrasal verb

brought before; bringing before; brings before
formal
: to cause (someone or something) to come to (someone or something) for an official decision or judgment
He was brought (up) before the judge on a charge of obstructing justice.
The case was finally brought before the Supreme Court.

Examples of bring before in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Second, as to the judiciary, the basis of our justice system is for judges to decide cases brought before them and to do so fairly and impartially, based on the facts and the law, free from extraneous influences. Jeffrey Rupp, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2024 Soto was brought before a federal judge and pleaded guilty to a single count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine. Tim Golden, ProPublica, 31 Jan. 2024 The Denver District Court, doing its job, interpreted and applied the constitutional provision for purposes of the case brought before it. Jeffrey Rupp, The Denver Post, 3 Feb. 2024 But the supreme court showed little alacrity in hearing the multiple legal challenges brought before it. Vaibhav Vats, The Atlantic, 3 Feb. 2024 The case was brought before the Supreme Court this week as the school district wanted a final answer to this ongoing debate over transgender students' rights. Katie Wiseman, The Indianapolis Star, 18 Jan. 2024 What went wrong on the county Human Relations Commission? Jan. 28, 2024 The six commissioners on the bylaws subcommittee met three times since October, settling on a draft last month to be brought before the whole body. Emily Alvarenga, San Diego Union-Tribune, 1 Feb. 2024 If a search was legal, the people who were arrested were brought before the Public Ministry, along with the evidence, but there were ten legal searches out of every hundred. Jonathan Blitzer, The New Yorker, 28 Jan. 2024 Revitalizing our Main Street and working on addressing issues that are brought before us by our Main Street Committee and expanding the way in which this committee interacts with the city, is one of those economic priorities as well. Sherry Greenfield, Baltimore Sun, 5 Jan. 2024

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“Bring before.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/bring%20before. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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